2.1 Resonance and Reverberation in Maud Sulter’s MUSEUM

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Cherry, Deborah and DeVere Brody, Jennifer (2023) 2.1 Resonance and Reverberation in Maud Sulter’s MUSEUM. In: Approaching Race and Empire in collections of nineteenth-century art and design: A resource pack for museums and galleries. Race, Empire & the Pre-Raphaelites research group.

Maud Sulter, "Museum", installation view, ETA, Zurich, photo: Nelly Rodriguez

Type of Research:	Book Section
Creators:	Cherry, Deborah and DeVere Brody, Jennifer
Description:	Maud Sulter’s MUSEUM (1990) comprises three large square colour photographic prints, each of which extracts and enlarges a detail from John Collier’s painting, The Death of Cleopatra (1890, Gallery Oldham). A quotation from Gertrude Stein is affixed to each frame. The gallery commissioned Sulter (19602008), a multidisciplinary Black woman artist, curator, poet and historian to create an artwork that would respond to the gallery’s entire collection. Given free rein to explore the stores, she selected the pride of the gallery, Collier’s massive painting measuring 3.95 x 3.15 metres (12’11” x 10’ 4”).
Official Website:	https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Digital-Museum-Resource-1.pdf
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:	Museum studies, Cleopatra, Gertrude Stein, feminism, black aesthetics
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:	Race, Empire & the Pre-Raphaelites research group
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Date:	1 November 2023
Funders:	British Art Network, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Arts Council England, AHRC, Birmingham Museums, Tate
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2024 09:51
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2024 09:51
Item ID:	22008
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/22008

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